Ling has a very happy life when she was 9 year old. Her parents both were worked in the best hospital in Wuhan. Ling love to study English with her father. Every thing was perfect before the Chairman Mao came and took over China. [...]

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Doha is the city that i used to live in. it is located in qatar, Qatar is located in the middle east and the middle east is located in the contenet of asia. Doha,Qatar is so small that it only takes one hour to drive the width of qatar! That is why nobody had ever [...]

The main element that the novel (Twisted) focuses on is a protagonist. The protagonist of this novel is perfectly rounded and this can be seen from the very beginning of the novel. The point of view, itself, is of the protagonist-Tyler Miller. However, the whole beauty of this book lies in the metamorphosis that Tyler [...]

One major theme that runs through The Reader is to come to terms with the past. Michael, our protagonist in the novel, had to deal with his past with Hanna, his lover, his feelings for her, and him being the child of his parents who were involved in World War II. One quote that was [...]

Questions:
1. What are the themes of your novel? Explain.
One theme that I discovered in the novel is the importance of human dignity. In the novel, Shukov is treated not as a human being but as a machine or robot working in a factory; he is called not by his name but a number that he [...]

Questions:
1. What have you learned from your novel?
In the novel, Shukov, the main character, is in Soviet labor camp which was a kind of a prison with very bad conditions such as cold weather, uncomfortable shelter, and bad food, and where he has to labor and get punished when he gets any reason for being unable to [...]

That was then, this is now
by: S.E.Hilton

Summary:
Two boys, one is big-built, buff, muscular and tall; name Bryon and the other, his adopted brother/bestfriend name Mark, is scrawny, small and short. Both of them are very close as if they were really brothers. The boys both like to get into fights, play pool for money (Bryon [...]

“What would you have done?”
The Reader, written by judge Bernhard Schlink became one of my favorite novels soon after finishing it in about a week. It first grabbed my attention not because of its infamous eroticism but the mystery of the character Hanna herself, written on the back of the book.  Its introductory sentence also [...]

The second book that i have been reading is called ” So B. It” by Sarah Weeks. The book is basically about a girl named Heidi who is living with her mentally disabled mother. Heidi doesn’t know anything about her family; she doesn’t know when her birthday is or who is her father. In fact, [...]